Dec

Nelson and Landrieu aren’t the only Senators who were bought off

John McCain said they should have set up a tent with Persian rugs the way the Democrats have doled out sweetheart deals, including the Louisianna Purchase and the Cornhusker Kickback.

The New York Times reported on some of the beneficiaries of some of these deals, buried deep within the health bill.

Buried in the deal-clinching health care package that Senate Democrats unveiled over the weekend is an inconspicuous proposal expanding Medicare to cover certain victims of “environmental health hazards.”

The intended beneficiaries are identified in a cryptic, mysterious way: individuals exposed to environmental health hazards recognized as a public health emergency in a declaration issued by the federal government on June 17.

And who might those individuals be? It turns out they are people exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine in Libby, Mont.

For a decade, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, has been trying to get the government to help them. He is in a position to deliver now because he is chairman of the Finance Committee and a principal author of the health care bill.

The Times also revealed how the west was won.

Another item in the package would increase Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors in any state where at least 50 percent of the counties are “frontier counties,” defined as those having a population density less than six people per square mile.

And which are the lucky states? The bill gives no clue. But the Congressional Budget Office has determined that Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming meet the criteria. …

Michelle Malkin has a complete list of “Cash for Cloture” ObamaCare recipients. It’s a who’s who of special interests and corrupt politicians, including Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Chris Dodd (D-CT).

Via memeorandum

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